Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program near Towson, MD

Family Centered Treatment (FCT)

Would you like your families to be able to

Achieve daily tasks and problem
Use clear and direct communication to say what they mean to the person that needs to hear it.
Have parents reclaim their role as heads of the household, while children’s roles reflect their developmental
Express emotions with appropriate timing and
Maintain healthy boundaries while meeting each other’s
Set behavior expectations with appropriate rewards and

Advantages to you as a referral source

One comprehensive referral can be made instead of multiple referrals.

Multiple services are offered to the family at a lower cost to the referral source in the form of a per diem rate.

FCT is a recognized evidenced-based practice.

Successes with “repeat” families due to value changes that are accomplished through the use of this model.

Family Centered Treatment® is a comprehensive service offered by One Source Wellness Works. FCT was developed as a model of treatment for use in the provision of family preservation services. FCT is a best practice and evidence-based model of home-based treatment that was developed by practitioners over a 20-year period.

As a family systems model, FCT works toward sustained behavioral change for the family by restructuring critical areas of family functioning. FCT gives meaning to family mem- bers’ perceptions, motivates them to action, and provides a method for functional behavioral change.

To make a FCT Referral please contact:

Office: (443) 377-0823

Visit website: [email protected]

What is Family Centered Treatment?

FCT is a model of intensive in-home treatment services for youth and families using individual and family treatment sessions.

FCT is designed to find simple, practical, and common-sense solutions for families faced with disruption or dissolution of their family.

FCT is designed to reduce maltreatment, improve caretaking and coping skills, enhance family resiliency, develop healthy and nurturing relationships, and increase children’s physical, mental, emotional, and educational well-being through family value changes.

FCT builds upon family strengths and aims to treat the systemic trauma that a family may have experienced by addressing the underlying causes, not just the behaviors.

The 4 Phases of Family Centered Treatment

FCT focuses on the underlying systemic issues and behavioral patterns of the entire family. FCT is family centered and genuinely strength-based.

FCT goes beyond behavioral compliance and ensures sustained behavioral changes through value integration. While most services discharge at the first sign of progress, FCT leverages this important time in treatment to further practice new behaviors and lead the family to adopt a new status quo.

What does FCT entail? What does it look like to the family and referral source? How does it work?

FCT is an intensive service requiring at least 2 multi-hour family sessions a week that occurs in four phases over 6 months.

Joining– Month 1

During this phase the clinician engages the family and gains acceptance and trust. The Family Centered Evaluation is utilized to determine areas of family functioning that need adjustment.

Restructuring—Months 2-4

The clinician directs the family in ways to alter ineffective behavioral patterns among family members. This process includes techniques to modify the crisis cycle to more effective and adaptive patterns of family functioning.

Families practice suggestions in our presence so we can keep them on track or adjust as needed so they learn new skills. Trauma narratives may be used to help some family’s process the emotional blocks that prevent them from moving forward in treatment.

Valuing Changes—Month 5

Families begin to use new skills every day, even when clinician is out of the home; can handle more complex situations without needing assistance from clinician.

Families begin to internalize or make the changes on their own, so they last. Clinician challenges the intent and reason for the behavioral changes that the family has made. Family members integrate new behaviors into their personal value system

Generalization—Month 6

Families are prepared with a plan to keep moving forward and are more than ready to do it without help from their clinician.

Who is appropriate for FCT?

Families who are maintained through preservation services or reunified as part of an identified permanency plan.

Reunification

Families for which there is a clear reunification plan for the child(ren) to return to the home within 30

Preservation

Families seeking alternatives to residential placement for behavioral/emotional
Families facing the removal of children from the

Juvenile Probation

Cases in which family system changes are needed to address behaviors by utilizing parental

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